Over $4 Million Dollars Awarded to Designers

February 27, 2009

We are especially proud to announce today that 99designs has reached another great milestone…we have now awarded over $4 million dollars to our design community with millions more resulting from direct follow-on work.

Each and every day we continue to find ways to improve and grow our business through your suggestions over email, twitter and Uservoice. We know that to be a true crowdsourcing success story we need to provide a tremendous value to our clients and our design community. This $4 million dollar milestone is testament not only to those efforts but also to our clients and to the incredible design community at 99designs.

Thank you all for making 99designs the leader in crowdsourced design and for all the incredible support, feedback, and suggestions you’ve provided us.

@99project: As Lachlan mentioned in another post, there is a 7 day delay before the credits are transferred. This affords the contest holder enough time to check they have received the correct files and ask any questions they may have. We will be adding a checkbox in the near future to allow the contest holder to confirm that the files are correct, which will immediately clear the credits. This should speed things up.

I am happy to contribute my humble hundreds–this is such a great service. I feel like the richest person in the world being the recipient of so much creative bounty. Thank you all, especially those who have entered my contests! I have an interesting one live right now, btw.

Your success is synonymous with the kind of service you provide :). Way to go 99designs for creating this platform. BTW i havent received my payment for the dictionary.com project, please look into it :(

I just wanted to say this site is such a great opportunity for designers. I have won 3 but even though there have been many I haven’t won, I still felt gratitude for the design. It helps me keep my designing fresh and helps me develop further as a designer. Thank you 99designs! You have developed a goldmine!!

Just a question…does it seem to anyone else that since the contests have become guaranteed, the CH’s are not giving as much feedback??? I’ve joined over 20 contest where there were absolutely no feedback? :) Maybe there could be something telling CH’s that they are paying and it is in their best interest to give feedback? I dunno…maybe it’s me :)